Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named
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Msg-id CABUevEz8DX9GOHt3HO7Yx5W2rh9m7dnFt9QmarzZBJUi=WaKcw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: "flat" links in mail archives are badly named  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> > Over in the issue-tracker thread,
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > > Evidently, the "flat" link is easy to miss.  Give it a try.
> >
> > I submit that the reason people miss what that's for is that it's very
> > unintuitively named.  What about using "whole thread" instead of "flat"?
> >
> > ("flat" is fine as a component of the resulting URL.  Just not as the
> > button label.)
>
> That's easy enough to change.  Another option might be "linear"? But I'm
> guessing what you're trying to convey is especially the whole thread part,
> rather than the "orientation"?

I think "whole thread" is easier to catch for newcomers, so +1 for that
(but keep "flat" as the URL itself.)


I've deployed this change on the system. It will trickle out to the different threads as they expire from the cache. 

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